With the nights drawing in and the temperatures falling I was wondering if anyone had any advice on fast and light cycle wild camping. Only a day or two at a time.
In summer you can get away with a tarp and no sleeping bag.
For winter a synthetic sleeping bag is about £100 and quite bulky and then a bivi bag about £50? with questionable waterproofness.
Is it time to give this up for another year?
Advice?
Fast & light cycle camping
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LondonBikeCommuter
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Re: Fast & light cycle camping
LondonBikeCommuter wrote:Is it time to give this up for another year?
No!
A good down bag thats also light, plus a lightweight tent could see you through the worst of the year. Only ever wildcamped once, but that was in central scotland in January, and aside from having my Winter sleeping bag with me and some good baselayers to sleep in - my kit wasn't wildly different from my summer one.
Re: Fast & light cycle camping
My pick is the Jack Wolfskin Gossamer. It's just on the tent side of a bivvy bag. It's light, tough and has proven completely waterproof, great value and surprisingly spacious inside. The only problem is no shelter to cook, so either you do it lying half out of the tent or exposed to the elements. There is no porch to speak of; it's also worth adding 4 extra pegs to enable the flysheet to be trimmed better.